 Hello and welcome to the Ed Hollis show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce joined by Stevenson head football coach Ed Hollis. Coach, you were home this past Saturday 11 Valley got up to a quick start, picked up your first home win of the season, kind of carried some momentum for a second quarter kind of carried that through and just talked about the game and how it went for you guys. Well, like you said Greg, it was the fast start was good getting the turn over quick and getting on the board quick was certainly advantageous for us. And I think the thing that strikes me about Saturday the most is it was a quality team win with great output, great effort from special teams, great output, great effort from the defense, you know, great output, great effort from the offensive side of the ball. So I think it was our most complete performance. I think there's still things we can work on and look at and get better at, but on a whole very proud of the guys for the team effort and the team win. Yeah, second quarter you talk about the opening turnover, but another big special team to play obviously Vince Lee 52 yard putt return for touchdown and then not like you said defense couple interceptions in that quarter that led to touchdown. So you were up 22, 0.5 just talking about how that momentum kind of built upon itself, you know, points off turnovers is something that we talk about often. Obviously, you know, the turnover, the takeaways on the defensive side are very important to us and something that we've talked about in the past. And when we're able to convert those turnovers to points is a huge momentum swing in a ballgame. And then obviously, you know, Vince's return and, you know, the number of guys that had big blocks on that return was impressive. And again, your special teams is something that, you know, we've really worked on and built throughout the years. You look back to week one, you know, we definitely had some issues on teams. So, you know, kind of recommitting ourselves over ourselves over the last couple of weeks is something that the guys have really kind of bought into in the efforts there and the execution starting to come along. Yeah, obviously on the offensive side of the ball had to make a couple changes. But Ty Kraub came in first career star and did pretty well for himself. Yeah, you know, he was, he made some mistakes, but he did a lot of positives as well. So for us, you know, as we work through this, you know, he's going to continue to grow and, you know, going to get better and better every week. And I think too, I think you've got to look at the offense as a whole. Right. Whenever you have that, that type of change, you know, in a very short amount of time, it takes a lot of adaptation, not only from the staff, but to the offensive line, receivers running backs, everything's going to feel a little bit differently. So to the credit of the entire group, to be able to go out and execute, you know, have almost 400 yards and, you know, score 30 points is certainly something that we're proud of. But again, you know, things we have to continue to build upon and still clean up some of the things from Saturday that, that, that, that, you know, there are still places to go with the offense. And it's going to be exciting to watch. Yeah, certainly, you know, put in a new offense, like you said, not just Ty, but it's new to everybody. So they're all going to be learning and improving, hopefully from snap to snap, play to play. Absolutely. And then I know we talked about, but just the defense, I mean, you know, they had the ball, I think, in your territory three times, two of them, one was the block punt and one was the fumble. So there was one time and it was late in the fourth quarter where they flying out of your territory. So keep doing a good job of keeping them on their side of the field. Absolutely. You know, we went back and looked at the drive chart and redid some of the numbers. Our first group only gave up 135 yards of total offense all day. And whenever you can hold a college offense, you know, to that, that type of number, you know, you're doing something right. And I think for those guys, they're starting to find their groove a little bit, you know, starting, you know, you watch them and you watch the pursuit and the energy that they're playing with on the defensive side of the ball. Even carrying back to two weeks ago, it has been significantly improved. And again, that's something that we've talked about. And we've got to continue to work and build upon it over the next four weeks. Yeah. Okay. So back in action again, once again this Saturday, travel up to Weiner for their homecoming game, a game, two teams. It's always a very physical, very emotional battle. Obviously, what do you need to do to go up there and come on with a victory on Saturday? We've got to maintain composure. You know, for us going up there, you know, there'll be 5,000 people there for homecoming. It's probably the most hostile environment that we'll play in this year. And, you know, their fans are loud and they get after you a little bit. And it's going to be fun for us. But the key for us is, you know, maintaining our composure, being the best football team that we can be for 60 minutes. And, you know, if we can do those two things, I think we'll have a shot. All right. All right, coach. We'll wish you the best of luck on Saturday and we'll chat next week. All right. All right. For Ed Hoddle, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Ed Hoddle Show.